Brigitte Egan is an experienced Women’s Health Physiotherapist and director of The Women’s Health Project.
Brigitte has a depth of experience in treating conditions specific to the female population, including pelvic health (incontinence, prolapse and sexual dysfunction), pre and postnatal care, menopause and period pain / endometriosis.
In her clinical work, Brigitte provides management of:
Pregnancy: pelvic floor and birth prep, back and pelvic girdle pain, safe exercise in pregnancy
Postnatal: pelvic floor rehab, cesarean rehab, abdominal separation
Bladder: urinary incontinence, urinary frequency, urgency, bed wetting
Bowels: constipation, faecal urgency, bowel incontinence
Prolapse: conservative management including pessary prescription
Pelvic pain: endometriosis, period pain, pain with intercourse, bladder and rectal pain
Brigitte Egan
B. Comm B. Phty (Hons) APAM
Brigitte graduated from the Australian Catholic University, North Sydney with first class honours in a Bachelor of Physiotherapy.
She has since completed additional training in women’s health physiotherapy through the Women’s Health Training Associates. Brigitte started her career in a graduate training position at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick before working as a maternity ward physiotherapist at one Sydney’s largest maternity hospitals, The Mater, North Sydney. Brigitte has since worked as a women’s health physiotherapist in private practice and is a tutor for the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Women’s Life Stages and Women’s Pelvic Health courses.